If you could explain Scottie Scheffler’s 2024, how would you? Well, it was sure successful, but we know that success comes with a price. After all, it’s never easy to reach the top, and the way, Scheffler did, it just showed resilience and determination. Coming to the Tour Championship after winning a gold medal, a major, and a few PGA Tournaments, the burden on Scheffler was sure off the charts. So, did it get to him? It did as revealed by Ted Scott, his millionaire bagman.

How did Scottie Scheffler feel after he won at East Lake?

Ted Scott revealed the details in the recent episode of Golf SubPar. When Ted Scott was asked about the challenges of holding a lead at the TOUR Championship, he reflected on his experience with Scottie Scheffler. Surprisingly, Teddy revealed that after they won at East Lake, they were more relieved than elated. All 2024, Scheffler was the number one man in the golf world, and winning the Tour Championship, and the title of FedEx Cup Champion would only solidify the fact. So, the relief they felt was understandable.

“I think it was a relief. Everyone expected Scottie to win, especially with the lead and the system in place. But it’s not a foregone conclusion, as we saw in the last two years when we lost the lead on the first hole,” he said. The golfer had tried his best in the last two Tour Championships but could only make it to the top 10 both times. He finished the 2023 Tour Championship at T6 with a score of 11 under par and the 2022 Tour Championship with 20 under par. Both times, he was #1 in OWGR.

He broke the curse this year as he won the Tour Championship in all his glory as #1. The golfer finished the last game of the FedEx Cup Playoffs at a brilliant score of 30 under par. The $25 million he won escalated his official on-course earnings of the 2024 PGA Tour season to a whopping $62,228,357.

One would think that the golfer would be partying after the win, but that was not the case. “I know he was exhausted… being in Europe for three and a half weeks, and then the FedEx Cup run, after about a six-day trip home. That was a lot,”  said Scott. The duo was in Europe way before the Olympics playing in events like the Genesis Scottish Open and The Open. Scheffler did not very loudly celebrate his gold medal as well.

The golfer and caddie duo had been on the greens back to back after securing the gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics. But the exhaustion was overcome by the motivation the golfer had. And that is exactly what Scott said next.

Ted Scott says Scottie Scheffler ‘has a burning desire to compete’

Scottie Scheffler is driven by a competitive spirit, and what motivates him is not the money he wins or the fame he gets; it’s a deep-seated desire to win that gets the world’s No. 1 going. Talking about this Scott said, “He’s just that guy that has a burning desire to compete at anything… I’ve never heard him talk about money. I’ve never seen him bring his master’s jacket somewhere to dinner or show it to somebody or a trophy,” said Scott.

Interestingly, the pressure to win the FedEx Cup almost made it harder for him to stay motivated. When everyone expects you to win, it can feel like a chore rather than a personal goal, and that is exactly what happened with Scheffler before the Tour Championship. “It’s almost hard for him to get motivated because it’s like, ‘You know, you’re supposed to win.’… It’s like, ‘Man, I live my own life. I do this for me, not for y’all,” Scott elaborated on Scheffler’s mindset before the Tour Championship.

Scott also admitted that being part of Scheffler’s team was incredibly stressful. “By far, the most stressed I’ve ever felt… It doesn’t change either one of our lives, but it’s like, ‘Man, I just want to get this monkey off his back.” Indeed he did, but there’s more stress on their way with the President’s Cup around the corner, but with the short break he is enjoying now, he will come back all recharged.